We ask for people to send us a short email with some information on their background and why they’d like to attend the conference. Nothing huge and involved: a couple of paragraphs are fine.

In the past, entries have described tracks in the conference they’re excited about, how the conference relates to the work they do, what they’re looking forward to learning from the conference, and what they want to take back to their local communities after the conference.

To select an entry, all information is anonymized and sent to a committee. We then notify the entrant.

More Than the Conference

We know that there can be hurdles getting to a conference that you want to go to; to help out with this, if the person selected by the committee lives outside the area in which the conference is being held, we will offer funds to offset the cost of travel to the conference and hotel accommodations.